While enjoying the summer garden, there is a chance to correct omissions or mistakes in the landscape that may have been overlooked during the heavy planting season in spring. One of these landscape additions might be the right fence or screen. Just as there are two sides to a fence, two major reasons exist for … Read more
Fences have taken a new turn to accommodate our nation of privacy seekers. For all our front of togetherness, most of us have a real desire for our hit of the secluded world beneath the sky. A good fence can accomplish this and much more. The redwood at left makes a striking backdrop for a … Read more
How many suburban places could have their general appearance improved if the masonry walls flanking the driveway or turn-around, or the walls enclosing the terrace, were converted into wall gardens? How many hours of strenuous pushing a lawn mower up and down steep slopes could be saved? Were the lawn graded into several levels separated … Read more
In these articles of mine, which FLOWER GROWER prints and illustrates, I have referred continually to my home place, Breeze Hill, because it provides my closest touch with the things I write about. To be sure, the automobile gets me about to see things elsewhere, but the Breeze Hill touch is the dose one. In … Read more
Stone walls are among the most striking and picturesque features of the Irish landscape. Yet, their charm is only incidental since their purpose is utilitarian. These walls vary in age from the ancient ones of abbeys and tower castles to recent ones marking boundaries of small farms. And from county to county, they vary in … Read more
In our country’s pioneer days, over 175 years ago, there existed immense areas of forest where farms and cities are now found. The first thing the early settlers did was to begin clearing the land of timber so it could be cultivated and farmed. As the ground was cleared, it became necessary to build fences … Read more